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Ugliest dog champ dies in Florida
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 11:53 a.m.
The one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch in Petaluma this summer has died in Florida.
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The St. Petersburg Times in Florida reports that Gus, a Chinese crested, had cancer. He was 9.
Gus was rescued from a bad home and went on to win the annual World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair.
According to the fair, his adopted family in Gulfport, Fla., rescued him after learning he was being kept in a crate inside a garage.
He had one leg amputated because of a skin tumor and lost an eye in a fight with a cat.
Gus' owner had said the prize money from the contest would be put toward the dog's radiation treatment.
-- Associated Press
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